My Silhouette Portrait Wont Feed The Mat

1 blade is not properly inserted and or locked down.

My silhouette portrait wont feed the mat.

I know i put that mat around here somewhere oh. It cut in the right place one time and then reverted back to cutting in the wrong place. To cut properly the blade must be pushed all the way down with no visible gap between the tool holder and the blade. My friend and fellow instructor elly from silhouette secrets has diagnosed this issue so often on facebook that she keeps a photo of a properly installed blade on hand to post whenever someone is having cutting issues.

The edge of the mat. In silhouette studio use the blue arrows to move your blade to the inside of the first green box. I learned a few things due to that. I can prove it.

On your cameo portrait use the arrow keys to choose load cutting mat align your cutting mat against the machine s rollers and press the enter key. My silhouette 3 is still cutting in the wrong place up on the mat at the top left even though it is set for the 12 12 cutting mat in the silhouette studio. Page 16 preparing the silhouette to cut turn the silhouette portrait on by pressing the power button under the lid and waiting for the machine to start up. If using the portrait without a cutting mat select the load media button.

The silhouette studio manual won t open. Page 17 different styles of blades are adjusted by different methods. Place the printed out test page on your cutting mat as shown in silhouette studio. 1 a blade setting of 5 plus doing a double cut will slice the edges of your mat if you cut there.